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On Christmas Eve 2021, a two-alarm fire tore through the Voorhees, New Jersey rental home of Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey. His former landlords blamed his parked Maserati for the blaze and sued the car manufacturer. A federal appeals court ruled in April 2026 that the landlords failed to prove the Maserati was defective or…
PETA sued the American Kennel Club in 2025, arguing that the AKC’s official breed standards force breeders to produce dogs with physical traits that cause lifelong suffering. A New York judge dismissed the case on April 7, 2026, ruling that the state law PETA invoked was misapplied. This is not a class action and there…
Multiple legal actions target Vital Proteins, a collagen supplement brand owned by Nestlé Health Science, over allegations that its products contain unsafe levels of heavy metals — including lead and cadmium — without proper warnings. No final class action settlement exists as of April 2026. This article covers every confirmed legal action against the company…
The Village of Old Westbury, a Long Island municipality in New York, must pay $19 million to Rabbi Aaron Konikov and Lubavitch of Old Westbury after a federal judge ruled the village unconstitutionally blocked the construction of a synagogue for nearly three decades. The two sides signed a federal consent agreement on March 18, 2026,…
A comprehensive settlement was reached on April 6, 2026, resolving years of litigation following a devastating listeria outbreak linked to medical supplement shakes. The outbreak, which spanned from August 2018 to March 2025, primarily affected the most vulnerable: residents in long-term care facilities and hospital patients. Federal investigations confirmed that 42 people were sickened, with…
On Friday, April 3, 2026, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida granted final approval to a $10 million settlement resolving the class action lawsuit Viviani v. Watson Clinic, LLP. The case followed a January 2024 data breach that compromised the sensitive health information of approximately 280,000 individuals. …
On April 2, 2026, a major milestone was reached in the litigation following the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster. ACE American Insurance Company (part of Chubb) informed a Baltimore federal court that it has reached a $350 million settlement with Grace Ocean Private Limited (the ship’s owner) and Synergy Marine Group (the manager). This $350…
On April 7, 2026, new court filings revealed that the Province of Ontario has agreed to contribute $400,000 toward a global $10 million settlement to resolve the long-running class-action lawsuit stemming from the 2012 Algo Centre Mall collapse. The disaster, which killed two women and injured 19 others, led to over a decade of litigation. …
On April 7, 2026, a Quebec Superior Court judge officially authorized a class action lawsuit against Résidence Angelica, a private long-term care home in the Montréal-Nord borough. The lawsuit centers on the catastrophic mismanagement of a COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, which resulted in the deaths of at least 68 residents. Lead plaintiff…